TechpadinTech News One Week Into Twitter's "Best Tweets First," and I Already Turned It Off A week after Twitter quietly turned on its "best Tweets first" reordering, I went into settings and switched it back off. Here's why the algorithm lost. February 18, 2016·3 min read
TechpadinTech News I Turned Off Twitter's New "Best Tweets" Thing Before I Even Finished My Coffee Twitter quietly rolled out its "best Tweets first" toggle this week, and after about four hours of use I switched it right back off. Here's why. February 12, 2016·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The RIPTwitter Freakout Aged About As Well As You'd Expect Twitter's algorithmic timeline panic from last week met the actual quarterly numbers today, and the numbers were the real story all along. February 10, 2016·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Yahoo Cuts 15% of Its Staff and I Still Cant Log Out of the Nostalgia Yahoo announced Tuesday it's cutting 15% of its workforce and shutting five offices while the board weighs "strategic alternatives." A look at what that phrase actually means, and why I still care about a company I havent used in years. February 4, 2016·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Waiting for AlphaGo vs. Lee Sedol DeepMind's AlphaGo beat European champion Fan Hui 5-0, but the real test is the March match against Lee Sedol, plus some personal griping about how bad I still am at this game. January 31, 2016·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Minsky, Perceptrons, and a Machine That Finally Played Go Marvin Minsky died this week, three days before DeepMind revealed AlphaGo had already beaten a European Go champion. Some thoughts on the strange timing and what got lost in the AlphaGo coverage. January 29, 2016·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Snowed In and Not Trusting My Nest Snowed in during the East Coast blizzard, I can't stop thinking about the Nest thermostat bug from a few weeks back and whether I actually trust my smart home right now. January 23, 2016·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Why My Thermostat Doesn't Get Software Updates A software update quietly drained Nest thermostat batteries and left people's houses cold last week. Here's why that pushed me further toward keeping my dumb thermostat around. January 21, 2016·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Goodbye IE9/10, and a Website Meets Its Match Microsoft cut off support for old IE versions this week, and between fixing a client's ancient intranet app and watching lottery sites buckle under Powerball traffic, it's been a week about creaky infrastructure. January 16, 2016·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Oculus Rift Preorders Are Open, and $599 Stings Oculus opened Rift preorders this week at $599, and after three years of hearing "as close to $350 as possible," the number stung more than I expected. January 9, 2016·3 min read
TechpadinTech News China Trips the Breaker Again and My Stock App Won't Shut Up China's brand-new circuit breaker rule tripped again this morning, halting trading in minutes and dragging Apple and other tech stocks down with it. A few thoughts from someone whose RSUs just had a bad Thursday. January 7, 2016·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Rocket Landed Upright While I Was Standing in a Return Line A personal take on SpaceX's December 21 Falcon 9 landing, watched half on a phone in a Target return line and half on a laptop that night with cold pizza. December 27, 2015·4 min read
